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Has iWork caught up to Office Mac yet?
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It's not as full of features as MS Office. It is definitely a lot faster than MS Office. In most cases, snappiness is more important to me than what advanced or semi-advanced features are. In a few cases, I explicitly need features that iWork lacks to do my job. But since iWork has been free to new Mac owners for a while, I guess this really is a pointless discussion: Most people will probably be just fine with the functionality offered by iWork. Those who need MS Office will have to pay for it anyway - both economically and through the more bloated experience.
Pages is a functional word processor if that's your task. I've never used Keynote, but I've heard it is every bit as good as Powerpoint.
Regrettably, Numbers is not even close to Excel. For example, Excel handles the .csv files I work with every day in the blink of an eye, perfectly every time. Numbers dumps all the data in a comma-separated-value table into a single cell, which defeats the whole point of a spreadsheet.
Numbers is nothing compared to Excel. That's too bad.
Regrettably, Numbers is not even close to Excel. For example, Excel handles the .csv files I work with every day in the blink of an eye, perfectly every time. Numbers dumps all the data in a comma-separated-value table into a single cell, which defeats the whole point of a spreadsheet.
Numbers is nothing compared to Excel. That's too bad.
I use Pages and Numbers at home for basic creative writing and the odd occasional flyers i need to advertise some sales. Numbers is great for that basic spreadsheet for budgeting and time management at home. I never saw the need to purchase Office for home use so I cancelled the subscription. But i have a work subscription on my macbook that obviously need for Work for more large complex documents/spreadsheeting.
I would have to agree with what you said cincy. Number is too based for professional use, especially if your working with large amounts of data and CSV files. It's a huge mess. Until that catches up - i wouldn't use it in my professional daily life.
I would have to agree with what you said cincy. Number is too based for professional use, especially if your working with large amounts of data and CSV files. It's a huge mess. Until that catches up - i wouldn't use it in my professional daily life.
It's getting there. If MS would release a working OneDrive for Business for Mac I think I could live with iWorks.
It's never going to be useful for engineers or engineering students, math, science students, etc until Pages or any other third party office suites support equations from MS office. If you open up documents that includes equations that was made from MS office, you won't be able to view them at all on third party office suites.
MS Office apps are slow behemoths. Unless you REALLY need a specific feature of any of the apps, I dont see a reason to pick it over iWork.
